A screengrab from The Natural Independent. “Perhaps this might be dramatic but Idle No More or related derivative could be our last hope as a species,” the blog's owner wrote. naturalindependent.com

The Idle No More movement is offering inspiration beyond Canada’s borders: former Occupiers, eco-activists and even one alleged left-wing terrorist have all cited it as a rallying cry.

A man armed with a Molotov cocktail who threatened to do harm to the Wisconsin State Capitol was arrested Tuesday just before Governor Scott Walker addressed lawmakers there. Suspect Kvon R Smith had the previous day written on Facebook: “I’m in support of the Idle No More Movement,” according to Breitbart.com. The website’s digging into Mr. Smith’s social media life suggested “deep sympathies for Palestinians, support for other liberal and far-left causes, and claims of previous felony charges.”

Breitbart.com identified Idle as a cause to which former Occupiers are “flocking.” And activists say Idle No More has deep historical ties when Occupy did not, a collective theme to rally around while Occupy did not, and the potential to carry their amorphous causes into the future.

On Wednesday, Idle protests and gatherings were held in Hawaii, over the weekend in Seattle and on Tuesday in Anchorage Alaska and Sydney, Australia, according to a photo on Idle’s Facebook page.

EcoWatch: Uniting the Grassroots Environmental Movement writer Bill McKibben says he doesn’t pretend to know just what’s happening with Idle No More north of the border, what with its hunger strikes and road blockades, but “it feels like it wells up from the same kind of long-postponed and deeply felt passion that powered the Arab Spring,” he wrote.

He said he knows firsthand that many of Idle’s organizers are among “the most committed and skilled activists” he’s encountered.

‘This might be dramatic but Idle No More or related derivative could be our last hope as a species’

Citing concerns about climate change, Mr. McKibben says Native Americans “know what exploitation and colonization are all about,” so it makes sense that they’re “leading the resistance” to corporatization across the world.

“Perhaps this might be dramatic but Idle No More or related derivative could be our last hope as a species,” writes Jesse Herman, on his blog The Natural Independent. “Every race and nationality in the ‘modern’ world needs to wake up to the fact that there is a conspiracy to keep us involved, to perfect the system in our own way so it operates a little bit more smoothly. This is to say, so that it destroys everything around us a little bit faster.”

Idle events are planned for Boise, Idaho, Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama, — some on, before or after Jan. 28, publicized as Idle No More’s World Day of Action.